If one has the time, willingness and patience to poke around on ICANN's
website, there is an abundance of interesting information.
For example, on the current, contentious discussion of the Uniform Dispute
Resolution Policy, I found this astute and sensible observation from Don
Telage, Sr. VP of NSI in the voting records of the provisional DNSO*:
http://www.dnso.org/votes/vote01/Archives/msg00004.html
We dissent and therefore disagree that any administrative dispute resolution
(ADR) process should be mandated directly from ICANN upon any or all
registrars, but should flow from the contractual obligations between
registry and registrar. No process should be mandated by any entity, ICANN
or registry, until those registrars who contractually bind their registrants
to the process are legally satisfied with the procedures involved, and have
given adequate notice to their registrants. ICANN will not incur any
liability if these procedures are unfair, improperly implemented or
inadequately staffed (Recommendation #1). Further, such ADR procedures,
while uniform in most aspects, should allow for variance in fees, payment,
panel providers, and involvement of the registrars, to the extend such
registrar is willing to accept the possibility in the process. ICANN should
not be called upon to establish a process for panel providers but leave it
to the private sector (Recommendations #2 and #3). As clearly enumerated in
Recommendation #4, substantial procedural problems remain to be addressed by
the industry of registrars who will operate with these procedures. To
proceed too quickly is to risk the failure of the procedures, and to
destabilize domain name registration. Registrars should be given the time
to draft and implement a practical ADR process based on real world
experience with registration.
Donald N. Telage
*note: establishing Working Groups with an incomplete constituency
structure was a violation of the bylaws. Thus, the vote to move
recommendations of invalidly constituted working groups is likewise
invalid. Now ICANN claims this vote as justification for moving forward
quickly on this controversial issue. Smoke and mirrors at work.
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